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These people tend to talk about their phones more than they talk on them. This year it's not about how many cool features you can pack into a phone, but how many features you can pack into the smallest phone possible. Thin is in. Most carriers will have an ulta thin model packed with every top of the line feature for this holiday season. These will be the "it" phones of the year, and will be priced accordingly. Music and video players, high speed data, Bluetooth, Megapixel cameras - these phones have all the hot features too. To their credit, each of them is also quite capable at making calls as well.

Cingular: Samsung SYNC Find out more Buy this phone	Sprint: Samsung M610 Find out more This phone is not yet available from our sales partners.
T-Mobile: Samsung T629 Find out more Buy this phone	Verizon: Motorola KRZR K1m Find out more Buy this phone

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